28 Mar 2024
Tuesday 18 February 2014 - 11:09
Story Code : 84321

The return of Irans agricultural sector

TEHRANThe founder of modern agricultural biotechnology in Iran is back,and with him, hopes ofmuch-needed reformin the countrys agricultural sector.
After an eight-year hiatus under the administration of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Behzad Ghareyazie wasin January reappointed head of the Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran (ABRII),the institute he established 15years ago.

During Ghareyazie's previous stretch as ABRIIs director, from 1999 to 2005, he tried to create the infrastructure needed for Iran to benefit from modern agricultural biotechnology. This included theproduction and official commercialization in 2004 of thefirst genetically modified (GM)insect-resistantrice cultivar in Iran.

Regardless of the arguments in favor or against GM crops, the achievement was considered a great technological step for Iran,a country where rice is a main food source and a strategic agricultural product. It also put Irans name on the map as the first country in the region toproduce transgenic rice.
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